WEIGHTS & MEASURES

We use different measures. It is just a fact. BIG DEAL.Americans use American measures; Canadians, the British, and Australians are caught in-between; and the rest of the world, well…. we know you think the metric system is best. (Lucky for me, I don’t have to change yet, although I hear they are vigorously teaching the metric system in schools now)

There are two ways to deal with the situation

have a chart of conversions

even better, have a set of measuring tools that speakboth languages

My personal take has always been to use measuring tools that speak the language of the recipe…I don’t feel I need to know what the equivalent in another system is– I never have. When I lived abroad and used other language recipes, I just got the measurement tools that worked in that system. (I find it really strange when people go to the trouble of importing measuring tools from their country, and then stand around converting recipes so they can use their foreign tools)